{"id":60028,"date":"2025-08-10T21:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60028\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T21:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:54:07","slug":"rangers-omar-narvaez-agree-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60028\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers, Omar Narv\u00e1ez Agree To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rangers have agreed to a minor league contract with catcher Omar Narv\u00e1ez<\/a>. The team revealed the news to reporters, including Jeff Wilson of DLLS Sports<\/a>, this afternoon. Narv\u00e1ez will report to Triple-A Round Rock.<\/p>\n

A veteran of 10 MLB seasons, Narv\u00e1ez has suited up behind the dish for the White Sox, Mariners, Brewers, and Mets. He returned to the White Sox on a minor league deal this offseason and eventually, albeit briefly, made his way back to the big league club. He caught four games for the South Siders in April, going 2-for-7 at the plate with two walks and three RBI.<\/p>\n

After the White Sox released him in May, Narv\u00e1ez signed a minor league deal with the Astros in early June. He had previously signed a minor league contract with Houston last summer after being released by the Mets. However, as was the case in 2024, Narv\u00e1ez never made it to the majors with the Astros. They released him<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n

There was a time when Narv\u00e1ez was considered a good offensive catcher, but he became such a liability with the bat last season that the Mets released him partway through the second season of a two-year, $15MM deal. What\u2019s more, while he blossomed into a strong defensive catcher during his time with the Brewers, he was previously a bat-first backstop. He had negative grades according to Defensive Runs Saved (DRS), Fielding Run Value (FRV), and Deserved Runs Prevented (DRP) in each of the first four seasons of his career. Many of his defensive metrics fell back into the negatives during his time with the Mets. So, it\u2019s unclear if the 33-year-old Narv\u00e1ez still has much to offer a big league team on either side of the ball. That being said, he comes with plenty of game-calling experience, if nothing else, and he was hitting well at Triple-A Sugar Land (110 wRC+) before his Astros release. A team like the Rangers, that has next to no catching depth behind Kyle Higashioka<\/a> and Jonah Heim<\/a>, could certainly do much worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers have agreed to a minor league contract with catcher Omar Narv\u00e1ez. The team revealed the news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,31235,82],"class_list":["post-60028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-omar-narvaez","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}